OAKLAND — An early-morning fire that destroyed two cars and a carport at an Oakland apartment building Saturday may have been arson, a fire official said.
The single-alarm blaze was reported around 4:30 a.m. in the 3300 block of Courtland Avenue — almost directly behind Oakland Fire Station 17 on High Street, according to Capt. Ian McWhorter. Arriving firefighters found two cars on fire inside the carport.
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Firefighters knocked down the blaze quickly, but the cars, which belonged to the building manager and a tenant, were destroyed. The garage doors were closed, leading officials to believe that the fire was intentionally set, McWhorter said.
An arson investigator was called to the scene, but a cause was not immediately known.
